Crucial to Australia will be the government's economic projections for the future.

Steel over-production in places like Hebei has already eaten into China's iron ore and coal imports.

In terms of the overall economy, the ABC spoke to a senior government official who said that over the next 12 months, GDP growth will be allowed to drop to 7 per cent if need be and inflation could rise to 3.5 per cent without Premier Li intervening with countermeasures.

The premier will also be expected to offer up something on military tensions with Japan, the Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam, as well as the possibility for competing maritime claims to trigger conflict in the region.

Former Chinese ambassador to Australia, Fu Ying, is spokeswoman for the Congress.

"We insist on peaceful resolutions to solve issues through negotiation," she said.

"If some issues can't be resolved immediately, we can put difficulties aside and, for example, co-develop an area.

"But if some countries want to challenge or to destroy a common agreement, to endanger regional peace, to destroy regional order, then China must respond in an effective way."

The nine-day Congress will discuss many of its problems behind closed doors, but the central bank chief, the foreign minister and delegates representing the province from where the weekend attackers are said to have emerged will all face the media to discuss China's enormous challenges.